hmmm, a blog eh?

The buttons above....lol, no I don't plan on needing even a fraction of them.

Well I've gotten pretty far on this project.  Never mind those button that don't work above.Please understand if you are reading this thing, it's a dummy platform to test out the code editing for blogger and the CSS code it uses.  Also it is testing out how the mods interact with advertising and about 74 other smaller things that matter all together but no so much that important apart. This is the main reason why I will not take the time to list them here.

Can I just break and say that with my office window facing the street, Friday afternoons have a strangest drive by people.  It's very odd.  We have many many joggers and dog owners in the neighborhood, and all of them that live on top of the hill walk the ridge on the top and don't go down the hills so we see many people on foot going past the house.  We are also one removed from the main corner intersection that funnels all the through traffic and people on short cuts.  These reason make Craig s list drops curb alerts wonderful for us if we or getting things to move out.  It also attracts the strange.  and I'm watching a few of them now...lol  The guy below fell off his bike like three times at that intersection before he finally got going and started in on a cell phone call while getting past the house.

Yes very odd indeed. But enough of that.  this site is a testing platform and I'm ironing out the kinks here before I go any further.  I started doing some house keeping on the server and opened up a new server that will function for the back bone for the next year or so.  While setting it up, I decided to try out the new Wordpress blog cms that comes with the server use.  it's nice.  I was shocked at how much I liked it compared to the old version.  This is right out of the box. blog.badskeleton.com

More to come as I set up the server.  I'm also featuring some new shopping cart stuff that looks very promising.

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Chipping Paint.....Literally, yes Literally

The painting of the house...

I'm sure my whole block is starting to wonder when I'm going to be finished getting ready to paint.  There is no doubt in anyone's mind that I'm not even close to the actual act of painting.  I however am beginning to wonder myself when this will be as each trip up the ladder sends me back back down a few hours later with nothing but a feeling of dread and loom.  I tried out some heavy duty paint stripper.  It was clear after two tries that it would do nothing but make the job worse, which it did.  I returned the stuff the next day at Lowe's.  They took at back without so much as a word.  Today I tarted back at it, this time with a heat gun and paint scrapping knife.  Somehow the places I applied the paint remover to, became stronger, infused with power, enough to resist the heat gun and the knife.  That was great.  So now the three roof areas are super cruddy looking, and extra strong with that look of crud.

This whole mess started back in 2007 when we were looking to buy the house.  The house was being painted when we first found it.  Word to the wise;  If you are buying a house that is being painted while on the market, make sure the paint is being put on correctly.  If it isn't, you can lower your price buy $8000.  All they are doing is making it far worse.  In my case they were just trying t cover up and make it look nice for a season till it was out of their hands.  they didn't use primer, at all and to make matters worse, painted white with a flat coat with ZERO sheen.  Everywhere they didn't prime is peeling right off and everything painted over is holding super strong in the middle and super duper shitty on the edges, so it look extra crappy, thus making me remove most of it as well.
Man I could kill those guys.  They are literally costing me two months of work to get all this corrected so we can paint the house.

Much to do by Winter

In the news of moving stuff to make room in the house for the yards new wood shop, we have begun.  I busted my own butt today to move things around, come Tuesday of next week the erst will be moved out and I'll move in the wood working tools and power equipment.  I have many orders to fill and the store needs the supply stocked for Christmas.  There is much to do by winter.

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Bullet Proof Glass

Most of us have been there at least once,  the local cable TV store.  it's where the magic of On demand TV viewing leaves the puffy happy world the TV commercials show us, and the service itself meets the cold hard in your face street reality of person to person interaction.
This is mostly why there is bullet proof glass there, well...... I should say that and a host of other factors that all tend to lead to the inevitable escalation of human conflict.  Lets explore some of my observations as I stood in my line today at the cable TV store with my cardboard box of boxes that we now for some reason have to turn in to get new ones which will in turn enable Comcast to honor the deal they made and have broken, for the last 5 months.

What would we expect from the store based on the TV commercials?  Probably something similar to a cell phone store.  What we get is something that looks more like a convenience store that stays up late for people who took drinking the whole way to 2:30am and now need the large industrial hot pocket to be able to fall asleep by 4am.  These people at 3am are possibly dangerous, but why are the people in line at the cable store, at 11:30am dangerous?

The reason they are dangerous is because they have been told to come here by people on the phone.  These people who seemed to know everything magically, just like the TV commercials. They were helpful and they were sorry but for some reason you are a special case and you need to simply proceed to the cable tv store where you have been told they will easily be able to complete this change and you will be all set.  That's what you go into the door thinking however when you get up to the bullet proof glass thing......... change.

The first thing you will notice is that the person behind the glass is unhappy.  You might notice the person items they brought with them to work, shoved on a cluttered table behind the desks under the bullet proof glass.  Kind of dropped in place as if the store was literally on fire when they all arrived that morning.  Yo may next notice that these people look normal... average, they could be seen working at wall-mart, or a grocery store but what they do not portray is a tech savy, go getter my blog, my face, remote controlled wire jockey who understands what all those button do.  No, you are not at the Apple iPhone genius store. You are at the equivalent of a hoagie shop trying to return or get answers about a device that costs hundreds of dollars and service that costs hundreds each month from a little old lady behind bullet proof glass because her employers know that what they have done combined with her hire, at this location may result in bodily harm.

What you will discover next is that somehow in 2014 the people who stream all your information and visual, audio entertainment, who sell you TV as needed, when needed at any time day or night.....even though these people and the little lady in the hoagie shop work for the same billion dollar company, their computers are not hooked up to the lady's computer at the sub shop "cable TV store"  She has no idea who you are.  They did not tell her about your problems, or how they were fixed magically on the phone, not 15 minutes ago...... you drove fast......so you would remember everything they told you on the phone........ but they didn't tell the old lady behind the bullet proof glass anything you talked about with...... hmmmmm  what was his name...... the guy on the phone, oh that's right, he didn't give a name.  I wonder why?  and the dance begins.......

The dance consists of some eye rolling.  You asking questions that are instantly squashed by the people behind the glass.  A feeling of being stupid....or possibly  deceived in some way..but you just can't put your finger on how.  They get up and go into a back room that you can not see.  This gives you more time to look at all the things in the room behind the glass, now with no people in it.  If you look back into the lobby where you came from, you will see now a line a people holding cardboard boxes.  The ones with out cardboard boxes look even more tired, as they assumed the boxes, wires and remotes would be easy to keep together while walking in.  They too had a positive phone conversation with a person with no name who fixed everything.  they did not however count on the line once inside, and now all the stuff is slowly falling out of the arms.  The hoagie lady reappears with devices that are the complete opposite of what you thought you were getting in your mind on the way over.  You ask if it's right, they reply yes, eye roll.  old stuff goes in, new stuff comes out, you carry it to the car, drive it home, forget about it.....then remember about it at 6pm, hook up all the boxes and.................................nothing.

The next part I do not do.  I used to.  then I got xanax.  I don't take that anymore, and I don't field calls from the cable company, ever....for anyone.  Talking with me for them has got to be like a slow hell, so it's better all around.  But for the next 2 hours my wife is on the phone with the cable company, all over the house, back and forth because despite everything to this point, when you call in they have no idea what you have been doing and no idea what you brought home from the hoagie shop...

Miss a payment, they know you.  and they know what you have enough to turn the shit off.  We need to take back some basic rights with utility company's.

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Blogger Theme Customizing

Themes by Blogger 

Kind of funny and true

Please stick with me as I tweak this code and CSS layout.  It's a bit different than I'm used to, but understandable.  I love the tools available.  When you plus these in to the full Google sweet for business, ad-sense, and search engine optimization it becomes easy to promote on a very large level.

Customized layouts for writing, and links.

• List
• Items
• for 
• making
• lists
  
  One thing that is interesting is the way that each page can be put out and used as a scratch pad and a finished document.  Limited in some ways but for simple quick writing this can't be beat.  The basic functions on the mobile application work great as well.  sometimes just getting the basics down as they are thought of is the most important thing for get things produced to the next level. 

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